Akira
Aleš Čermák
Asymmetry is Strategy & SiA, Part 3 / 3
by Aleš Čermák 822 In a short story by A. C. Clarke, Tibetan monks hire calculation process experts …
Asymmetry is Strategy & SiA, Part 2 / 3
by Aleš Čermák [0] ↔ AiS&SiA While world maps render space in x- and y-axes, no linear …
Asymmetry is Strategy & SiA, Part 1 / 3
by Aleš Čermák The tautological title of Aleš Čermák’s project Ais&Sia, which is an acronym of the words asymmetry …
The Other Half of The World
by Aleš Čermák https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQXqcBUpjE&t=50s This text served as the inspiration for short film The Other Half of the World …
Amy Ireland
Scrap Metal and Fabric: Weaving as Temporal Technology
This extended version was presented at Wyrd/Patchworks #2, for the original version of the text please refer to zinzrinz.blogspot.com …
Casey Carr
All Dogefathers Go to Heaven (Part 3/3)
Source: Copyright Imago shared from https://www.dw.com/en/plants-share-information-using-natures-fungal-internet/a-41553291 Mycelial Intelligence, from the Ground Up It’s Musk against Москва, backed by the multitudes …
All Dogefathers Go to Heaven (Part 2/3)
Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/lightning-silhouettes-powerlines-5594011/ Counterhyperstitions and Sky Daddies Of many comedians, quite a few observable end up speculating on dark futures correctly. …
All Dogefathers Go to Heaven (Part 1/3)
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Powerlines_running_through_clearcut_path_in_a_forest_west_of_Issaquah,_Washington,_ca_1901_(WASTATE_1683).jpeg Dark Forest Theory of Intelligence and No-ships A Dark Forest Theory of Intelligence builds on the Dark …
Goldmen and Dogefathers
image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/fakehistoryporn/comments/7op4em/first_dwarf_in_the_bitcoin_mines_in_toronto/ As I run through each verse of Tolkien’s Dwarven Song of Old Wealth, popularized in Peter Jackson’s …
Patchwork-in-a-box: A Kurdish Answer
New World Summit design by Jonas Staal – http://newworldsummit.org/about/ and https://www.ibraaz.org/interviews/160 The old DIY was implicitly about infrastructure, establishing communication …
n i p p o f u t u r i s t – m a n i f e s t o / 日本未来主義 / 1868-2020 a. d.
Cityscape from scene in Ghost in the Shell (2017) – Source: Digital Arts Online – GITS (2017) by C.D.Carr …
Futurist’s jihad – Part II
The ISIS’ touch: Digging for Alt-Currencies in the Desert and the Race for eDinar by Casey Carr top image: McCrow. History Interrupted, …
The Dark Enlightenment as Proscalypse
a case for Mimetic Warfare by Casey Carr top image: MOAB, the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the U.S. …
Futurist’s jihad – Part I
Applying an Accelerationist Model to Understand Jihadi Networks by Casey Carr Image credit: Jack Kirby – Lord of Light INTRODUCTION …
Ceci Kulp
Xenofeminism, one of a kin(d)
by Ceci Kulp “Whilst capitalism is understood as a complex and ever-expanding totality, many would-be emancipatory anti-capitalist projects remain …
Celia Sphinxter
On the Entropement of COVID-19 (an Entropology)
The manner in which media have been reporting on the current Covid-19 epidemic has been unique, insofar as the new …
Memory Algorithms: Duolingo as a Platform for Second Language Acquisition
The Duolingo mobile app provides a particular case study for encountering the overlap between symbolic and machine language systems in …
Computational Thinking Through the ‘Digital Humanities Stack’
Computational Thinking Revisited Computational thinking was originally framed as an educational and largely entrepreneurial skill set. Jeannette M. Wing defines …
Art for the Multiplicity, or Making the Future
photo credits: watonmuni.com Speculative practice and theory are predicated on the desire to chart vectors of the future, and art …
From Green Accelerationism to Appropriate Accelerationism (App/ACC)
Accelerationism has always had a tenuous relationship with ecology and green politics. Lets just quickly mention R/ACC’s (i.e. Nick Land’s) …
Chris Shaw
Patchwork as Real World Vectors
I define patchwork as the adaptation and fragmentation of institutional structures through the processes of exit and voice. In this …
Dalibor Knapp
Ethnographic Study of Algorithms (2017)
by Dalibor Knapp ‘The Digital Body’ Fragmented bodies are fed by fragmented attention. Underdeveloped bodies, by the standards of …
Darya Kulbashna
Music and Language in Cultural Criticism: A Non-Philosophical Approach
Image creds: Darya Kulbashna This essay investigates the instances of cultural criticism …
David Vichnar
After The Deluge, The Slime
Report from Prague “As a flood spreads wider & wider, the water becomes shallower & dirtier. So the Revolution evaporates & …
Dustin Breitling
The Non-Fungible Time That Remains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvlr-WS8CxY A Film by the Cosmo-Financial Study Group Welcome to the Cosmo-Financial Report, a speculative forecast from the weather within …
Modifying the Means To The End
In an effort to bring rain to the desert and drought-stricken United Arab Emirates, thousands of drones were sent into …
Derivative Capitalism & Cryptonomics w/Jonathan Beller
An interview with Jonathan Beller regarding the evolution of the Attention Economy, the role of Cinema as a critical site …
‘Social Derivatives & Convex Commons’ w/Economic Space Agency & Gerald Nestler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHm2jEFfvRg&t=5682s This is the video uploaded from the Diffractions Collective and their featured panel that hosted Economic Space Agency & …
Gaming The Aftermath
Produced and curated by Diffractions Collective – Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling hosted by APART Surveying a planet fraught with climatic, …
The Passion According to Omnicide
A film influenced by the works of Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H. and Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh's Omnicide. Narration …
After Geoengineering w/ Holly Jean Buck
We discuss with Holly Jean Buck about her book "After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration" examining best-case scenarios for …
Transcendental Time-Stretching w/ J.P. Caron
We are joined by philosopher and artist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil J.P. Caron, to discuss the nature of …
Afropessimism w/ Frank B. Wilderson III
We are joined by Frank B. Wilderson III to discuss 'Afropessimism' and the broader developments and insights to his work …
Social Dissonance w/ Mattin
We are joined by artist, performer, and theorist Mattin dialoguing about the nature of noise as a phenomenon and its …
Justin Murphy
Louis Armand
ENTROPOLOGY – Part II/II
Here’s Part I 4. Negentropic Debt A number of interventions in the discourse on the Anthropocene have adopted for their …
ENTROPOLOGY – Part I/II
At the end of the second decade of the twentyfirst century, it has become de rigueur to speak not only of an …
Teratologies
Washington, 25 August 2019. Scenario: A lunatic is in the White House. Like a slow-motion car crash, the US administration …
DEATH BY RESURRECTION
originally posted on Alienist Manifesto THE MYTH OF THE ABSENCE OF MYTH An immense fraud has been perpetuated in contemporary …
Dispatches From The Event Horizon
Ce n’est pas la technique qui represent le vrai danger pour la civilisation, c’est l’énertie des structures. Beguiled by the idea …
Michael James
Global Wyrding & Deeply Adaptive Patchworking
by Michael James originally published on SyntheticZero.net This is a transcription of a presentation given at Wyrd/Patchwork #2, an event which took place at …
Miroslav Griško
Extremophilic Qualities of The Race
Beresheet בראשית crash site :: Earth’s Moon 2019 By Miroslav Griško Among the forty-six "lessons and observations" 1 written after …
Replicative Death Order
Four billion years ago, time becomes strategic. Abiogenesis turns a dead universe into a replicative death order. The Israel Defence …
Miss Cellaneous
Založení Klubu Cthulhu
Založení Klubu Cthulhu – by CCRU Kapitán Peter Vysparov píše Dr. Echidně Stilwellové[1] Milá Dr. Stillwellová, měl jsem to …
Akceleracionistický manifest (Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics – CZ)
#AKCELERACIONISTICKÝ MANIFEST (14. května 2013) Alex Williams a Nick Srnicek ÚVOD: Výchozí pozice 1. Na počátku druhého desetiletí 21. století …
Piotr Tkacz
At the Movies With Deleuze: Philippe Grandrieux
by Piotr Tkacz As for the distinction between subjective and objective, it also tends to lose its importance, …
Ralph Heidenreich and Stefan Heidenreich
Non – Money
On a post-monetary economy with network-based matching by Ralph Heidenreich , Stefan Heidenreich Amsterdam, Moneylab 21.3.2014 Originally published on http://www.stefanheidenreich.de/ On …
Sebastian Chum
A fragmented ride through well-ordered chaos: A review of Assman's The Martian LSD Experiments
Before I begin this review, there are two main things you should be aware of. A: I have received a …
Why we should Patch life: Topophilia, paradigital anthromes, reverticality and geo-ontology
In my first WYRDPATCHWORKSHOP talk, I propose that we should already start realizing and conceptualizing our everyday lives as already …
Sylbee Kim and Christina Gigliotti
The Red Liquid and Narcissus in the “Age of Hyper-Uncertainty”
by Sylbee Kim and Christina Gigliotti Image credit: Sylbee Kim, The Red Liquid and Narcissus, Installation View, Nevan Contempo, 2017 …
Thor Garcia
G L A N N D S™
Glandular Life-Support Action & Neuronal Network Development Society™ By Thor Garcia From Pink Alligator: The Testament of Captain Chip T. …
Uriel Fiori
Veronika Romhány
Worker of the Month
by Veronika Romhány https://youtu.be/8AWiOwJ47GY 1984 – 1994 – 2004 – 2014 [su_row][su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] 1. I …
Please Do Not Touch (2018)
by Veronika Romhány https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjuqu7ojkq8&feature=youtu.be Music by Michael Jackson Pollock For the accompanying text by Vit Van Camp, …
Vit Van Camp
Affordance, Actionability and the Gamic Medium
This piece was written for the Beyond the Gaming Principle – User at Work conference, hosted 17 February 2022 at …
Standing Stone: Kinship
Memory-stones seldom stand by the road Save when kinsman honors his kin. —Hávamál Runic writing first appeared in the second …
Gaming The Aftermath
Produced and curated by Diffractions Collective – Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling hosted by APART Surveying a planet fraught with climatic, …
Wyrdpatchworkshop I-IV: Towards the Temporary Augmented Reality Zone
This essay constitutes fallout from the Wyrdpatchworkshops (WPWS), a series of encounters which took place in the Winter and Spring …
nightingale
Bohemia 1978, 2017, 2018: The nightingale speaks Tw*rrrrrr rp chirup chr *chrrr rrr …. .. . … …….. . ……….. …
“May You Live in Interesting Times”: the Myth of the Good Anthropocene
This talk was given at the Performance Crossings Festival 2019 which took place in Prague. http://www.mikeplibby.com After long deliberation on …
Power, Pleasure, Intersectionality
Foucault, in his History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, essentially agrees with Judith Butler when she says that gender is constructed.[1]In his …
Red Pills and Specters: The Imaginarium of David Icke
In Michael Barkun’s words, David Icke’s ontology is a “superconspiracy,” that is a “conspiratorial construct in which multiple conspiracies …
Altai: An interview with Lukáš Likavčan
For more information on the Alt’ai project, please visit http://altai.id/ and the Strelka Institute’s Alt’ai subpage. Vit Van …
Vladimír Orloj
Armand’s Glitchhead (2021) in the Rearview Mirror
Over the past few years, Louis Armand has been extremely prolific in …
Glyphs on Feral Enterprise
A point comes when information becomes invested in the world’s matter, and …
Xenogoth
When Things Take Time
The immensity of the effort that must be made, the necessity of again putting into question all of the values …
Anomalous Worlds: on Accelerationism & Patchwork
Originally posted on Xenogothic.com This was a talk given at the fourth #WYRDPATCHWORKSHOP event, organised by Diffractions Collective and held at Punctum in Prague. What I …
The Wyrd Sisters Bring Death to Leviathan
by Xenogoth Originally published on Xenogothic.com This is a transcription of a presentation given at #WyrdPatchwork, an event which …
@baroquespiral
Green Accelerationism: Multicentrism and Multipolarity
“A negative conclusion [to the problem of measuring teleoplexy], if fully elaborated, would necessarily …